Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos may be the world's richest person, with a net worth of about $112 billion (£78 billion), but at least some of those working on his warehouse floors are apparently so desperate to keep their jobs that they don't even take time to use a restroom.

Shinzo Abe’s approval rating fell again amid allegations of cronyism and government cover-ups, placing new pressure on the Japanese prime minister to stage yet another comeback or risk losing his grip over the ruling party.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended Sunday his government's backing of a controversial pipeline project, the Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd oil pipeline, claiming the world could not afford to choose between the environment and the economy.

Canada’s government got just 24 hours notice that it would be thrust into a political and economic crisis by an ultimatum from a pipeline operator, government sources said, leaving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scrambling for options in a dispute that could damage his re-election chances.

Richard Spencer's page on the social network was removed on Friday along with two other pages he controlled: that of his National Policy Institute think tank, and one promoting his AltRight.com news analysis website.

Among the clearest signs of capitalism’s obsoleteness, at least from the standpoint of humanity, is the growing dislocation of people caused by its crisis, by the poverty, the wars and the hopelessness it creates.

>A decision looming before Brazil’s Supreme Court could free imprisoned former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva within days and deal the harshest blow yet to the South American country’s battle against corruption, prosecutors and judges say.

>Several justices on Brazil’s top court have already made clear they want to overturn a landmark 2016 ruling that allowed defendants to be jailed if their graft convictions were upheld on a first appeal - the sole reason that Lula and several senior politicians and businessmen are currently behind bars.

>Reversing the ruling would mean not just freedom for Lula, who leads polls for October’s presidential election, but also the release of many other leading politicians and businessmen serving time for corruption.

>Democrats hold an advantage ahead of the midterm elections, but a Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that edge has narrowed since January, a signal to party leaders and strategists that they could be premature in anticipating a huge wave of victories in November.

>The poll finds that the gap between support for Democratic vs. Republican House candidates dropped by more than half since the beginning of the year.

After his new national security adviser gets enthusiastic applause, Trump says he might have to fire him

President Trump, who doesn’t like to be overshadowed by those who work for him, joked Monday that John Bolton, his new national security adviser, could soon be out of a job.

At an event in Hialeah, Fla., staged for Trump to tout the Republican tax cut bill passed last year, he took a moment to crow about the U.S. military strikes in Syria on Friday and pointed out that Bolton was traveling with him.

>The situation in the districts where control of the House is likely to be decided is slightly more favorable for Democrats. The Cook Political Report, which produces nonpartisan analysis, lists 56 of the 435 congressional districts as competitive — 51 of them in Republican hands to just five held by Democrats.

>In competitive districts excluding Pennsylvania, where new boundaries were drawn this year, Democrats have an edge of 50 percent to 43 percent when voters are asked which party’s candidates they would favor if the election in their district were held today. Democrats need a net gain of 23 seats to capture the majority.

>Sean Hannity, the Fox News host who has been waging war on the air against special counsel Robert Mueller and is an outspoken advocate for President Donald Trump, was revealed Monday as one of only three clients that Michael Cohen, the president's personal attorney, had during 2017 and 2018.

>In a court filing earlier in the day, Cohen had sought to shield Hannity's name from becoming public. Cohen said he had three clients: Trump; Elliott Broidy, the former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who impregnated and then paid a woman with whom he had an affair; and a third party that Cohen said did not want to be identified.

Of course it will. If, a big if, we survive the collapse of US empire, the F-35 will be its fucking poster child. This will make Nazi Germany's miracle weapon seeking and stupid tank motherfuckery look sensible and level headed.

>A federal judge on Monday rejected an attempt by President Trump and his longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, to block prosecutors in Manhattan from immediately reviewing a trove of materials seized in F.B.I. raids last week on Mr. Cohen’s office, home, hotel room and safe deposit box.

>But feeling her way toward a resolution of the clash involving Mr. Trump and prosecutors investigating Mr. Cohen, the judge, Kimba M. Wood, signaled that she was considering appointing a special master to assist prosecutors if and when they cull through documents seized in the raids.

Again, a special master won't help Trump or Cohen for shit. At best, it'll delay the inevitable.

Not quite as fucked as Nixon, but this could blow up massively depending on what exactly those documents reveal

Cohen is Trump's longtime go to lawyer, and Trump has a massive record of shady deals and very embarrassing shit in his closet, Cohen has likely helped Trump get away with serious criminal activity in the past

No matter what the news cycle vomits up about how evil Trump is there needs to be a large majority in congress willing and able to impeach him. IMO he's more useful as a punching bag to blame all the failures of "American democracy" on than Pence would be, so he'll stay.

I keep hearing this but keep in mind, even though they would love this, if the charges of Cohen being involved with bank fraud are true; there's really no reason to believe Trump wouldn't be fucked up beyond recognition at that point.

I mean if it's really bank fraud and obstruction of justice and money laundering, and all that together; yeah even if they want him he's still fucked

While the F-35 was a waste of resources, it is a pretty cool feat of engineering. During and after the revolution we will use them. They are pretty advanced, even if the resources needed to invent them is gigantic. Similar to how the Soviets used the V-2 rocket as a base to build the Soyuz engines.

There's nothing revolutionary about Short takeoff vertical landing, we've had VTOL aircraft since the 70's IIRC

Its not really all that useful for passenger planes because it adds an enormous amounts of complexity and expense to the aircraft, the entire point of it is that it allows planes to take off from very short runways and land vertically without needing a runway, speeding up the rate at which you can launch aircraft and reducing the size of landing area required, great for aircraft carriers and field produced runways where space may be at a premium, but not very useful in commercial aviation as you need a long runway and large runway system anyway to manage lots of different types of aircraft using it and for safety incase a landing or takeoff goes wrong

A few days ago, an old member of Communist Party of Brazil (a Maoist offshoot of the Brazilian Communist Party, from the Sino-Soviet split), Aldo Rebelo, officialy went over to PT. I'd bet my left hand that this is a PR move, as a nominally commie candidate would make things unnecessarily more difficult, and that party has been a remora to PT for a while anyway. So they'll keep trying to find some loophole to allow Lula to run, with Aldo being plan B. He has some public visibility, especially since many of the older (and dirtier) big names are laying low, and more importantly, he's one of the very, very few federal-level politicians with an absolutely spotless record. This is currently an even better advantage at the polls than ever, especially seeing as PSDB, PT's rival and the biggest beneficiaries of the Car Wash operation, has 3 big names for candidacy, and all 3 are being investigated by Car Wash, and 2 of them are that type of politicians that everyone knows is rotten despite the media mentioning their misdeeds only because not reporting on them would be way too obvious. And 1 of the 2 lost some internal power struggle and is getting the Lula treatment in the media. Strangely enough, the third one, that has a mostly clean reputation, has been getting air smear time lately too, despite becoming party president recently and having it all set to be their candidate.

There's also this surprising poll an anon posted in some other thread and my dumb self forgot to save. It seems that PT's popularity hit its lowest in 2015, but has been increasing since (tho in a wild zigzag), and is currently the most popular party by a fair margin, whereas PSDB's absolutely cratered, despite the media barely mentioning the accusations against them. If this trend holds, PSDB won't even be a contender, let alone reach the run-off election. I frankly expected one of their 3 big fish to have been annointed years ago to win this presidency by bumping Lula off, but I really didn't expect this complete inversion. My only guess is that the media laid it on too thick, and every normie that doesn't have class hatred against PT could see the blatant persecution and favoritism. Meanwhile, PSDB simply didn't have any exposure what with the circus surrounding Lula. Wew lad, as they say. The only bad news is that the second most popular party was a rent-a-party for a rightwing dungtick called Jair Bolsonaro, such a perfect convergence of ignorance, stupidity and bigotry that he makes Trump look like Lenin. Thankfully they were far behind PT and he switched parties since then kek, the poll ended at late 2017. But let me tell you, the mere possibility of him reaching power is enough to have me look into requesting an European passport by ancestry.

>(see Barbosa, Marina, even the Myth himself, all generally pretty clean, In my dreams NOVO gets the vote of every non-minion Little-Chicken-Wing and PSDB goes the way of the PFL.)

It's an advantage, not a golden ticket. It's not enough to carry a candidate, they have to have the usual "electable candidate" package, you know, all thet bullshit that bougie pseudo-democracies require; look respectable, shmooze with people on the campaign trail then never again, have the right connections etc. Once they're past that hurdle and the pre-candidate herd thins out, people really begin comparing them with themselves, and that's when a clean rap sheet is a huge plus.

Also let's face it, there's no way Bolsomito isn't making money on the side. I'd even bet that the media and PSDB (implying there's a difference) have a nice juicy Car Wash-related dirt on him just waiting for the right moment to be exposed. Whether it's actually true won't matter in the end either. Just slip some dosh to Joesley Batista and he'll testify under oath that he saw Bolsonaro personally gas the 6 gorillion.